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Home » US Law » 2022 New Hampshire Revised Statutes » Title X - Public Health » Title 147 - Nuisances; Toilets; Drains; Expectoration; Rubbish and Waste

Section 147:22 – Penalty.

    147:22 Penalty. – Any person violating the provisions of RSA 147:18 to 21 shall be guilty of a violation. Source. 1903, 2:5. PL 140:21. RL 165:21. 1953, 102:3. RSA 147:22. 1973, 531:32, eff. Oct. 31, at 11:59 p.m.

Section 147:3 – Investigations and Complaints.

    147:3 Investigations and Complaints. – Health officers of towns, and each of them, shall inquire into all nuisances and other causes of danger to the public health, and for the purpose of such investigations, or whenever they shall know or have cause to suspect that any nuisance or other thing injurious to the public […]

Section 147:4 – Removal, Notice.

    147:4 Removal, Notice. – The health officers may notify the owner or occupant of any building, vessel, premises, or property to remove or destroy any nuisance or other thing therein deemed by them, on examination, to be injurious to the public health, within a time limited; and in case the owner or occupant, after […]

Section 147:43 – Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling.

    147:43 Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling. – Each town, city or unincorporated place is authorized to receive and expend revenue for the purpose of disposing of solid wastes or trucking or separating and recycling solid wastes in an appropriate manner. Such revenue may also be spent to study and prepare a proposal for the […]

Section 147:46 – Existing Community Obligations.

    147:46 Existing Community Obligations. – Nothing contained in this subdivision shall relieve communities of obligations, existing under other provisions of law, to abate open dumps or nuisances, or to establish sanitary landfills, and nothing herein shall impose upon any municipality in this state a financial burden in excess of that required under the law […]

Section 147:47 – Resource Recovery Facilities.

    147:47 Resource Recovery Facilities. – No municipality in this state shall be prohibited by any provision of local or state law from entering into long-term contracts for the supply of solid waste to resource recovery facilities. Source. 1977, 581:2, eff. July 18, 1977.

Section 147:5 – Assistants; Resistance.

    147:5 Assistants; Resistance. – They may employ such assistants and laborers as may be necessary, and if resisted shall have the same powers as sheriffs have to command assistance; and any person wilfully resisting them or their assistants or laborers, in making the search or removing the nuisance or other thing, shall be guilty […]

Section 147:58 – Civil Liability for Hazardous Waste Violations.

    147:58 Civil Liability for Hazardous Waste Violations. – I. Any person who is convicted of violation of a permit, rule, standard, requirement, or order under RSA 147:55 and who is made a defendant in a civil action arising from that violation shall be liable to a successful plaintiff in an amount equal to 3 […]

Section 147:6 – Removal Without Notice.

    147:6 Removal Without Notice. – When the owner of a building, vessel or enclosure is unknown to the health officers, or does not reside in town, and the same is unoccupied, or the occupant is, in their opinion, unable to remove the same, they may, without previous notice, immediately cause the nuisance or other […]

Section 147:7 – Expenses.

    147:7 Expenses. – The owner or occupant of a building, vessel or enclosure shall be liable to pay the expense of the removal or destruction of the nuisance or other thing, including the fees of the health officers who order or cause the same to be removed; and the same may be recovered by […]

Section 147:7-a – Notice to Owner.

    147:7-a Notice to Owner. – As a prerequisite to the use of the alternative abatement cost collection procedure under RSA 147:7-b, any notice or order given pursuant to RSA 147:4, 147:11, 147:17, or 147:17-a, shall be in writing and subject to the following requirements: I. The notice shall contain: (a) A description of the […]

Section 147:7-b – Collection of Nuisance Abatement Costs.

    147:7-b Collection of Nuisance Abatement Costs. – A municipality which has incurred costs for the removal or destruction of a public health nuisance pursuant to RSA 147:4-6, 147:11, 147:13, 147:17, or 147:17-a, may, as an alternative to a civil action to recover such costs, institute collection of such costs using the following procedure: I. […]